This page has a collection of some of my favourite links. You can also look at my Site of the Week page (it doesn't actually get updated every week) which lists some of the interesting places I've been surfing.
Some of the Best Places on the Web
- Wikipedia: The Universal Encyclopedia We All Made (and are still making)
- Arts & Letters Daily: A portal for the cognoscenti ...
Here's a really great Internet idea,
and a site for all booklovers to revel in.
Or you can go straight to my BookCrossing bookshelf
Storytelling
- Network of Biblical Storytellers International Home Page
- Sur La Lune: Heidi Anne Heiner's Fairy Tales Page. The best fairy tales site I've come across.
- Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Resources for Storytellers
- Story Dynamics: Doug Lipman's Storytelling Site
- The Society for Storytelling: an open organisation which welcomes anyone with an interest in oral storytelling, whether teller, listener, beginner or professional.
- Pete Castle's Facts & Fiction magazine: the UK's premier storytelling magazine.
Books
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Buy them from Amazon.co.uk! And if you go there by clicking on this image, and buy books, I get a commission! - Free books on the Internet:
Friends and Family
- This is my brother-in-law Owen Williams' website, the wildlife artist.
- Another artistic brother-in-law: the photographer Gustavo Espinosa.
- The Simpsons. We're not related, but I feel like they're my family too - just like so many others all over the world (including Archbishop Rowan Williams)
Linux
- What is Linux?
- Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz
- On the nature of Linux: A good article by Mark Finlay
- Desktop Linux : Join the Desktop Linux revolution!
General Computing
Internet People
There's lots of interesting people to meet out there on the Web. Here are just a few of my favourites:
- Telsa: She lives in Swansea, she's involved in the GNOME project, she keeps an accurate online diary, her husband is quite a famous Linux hacker. (I hope they appreciate understatement.)
- James the Vicar James Ogley: Husband, dad, clergy, geek.
- And who can resist Jessamyn the freelance librarian?
Oxford: Is there a better place to live?
Radical Stuff
- Tom Paine.com: A public interest journal, named for the man whose Rights of Man converted me to republicanism.
- Mother Jones
- Michael Moore: Help our American friends get rid of Dubya!
Why aren't there any British radical sites? The New Statesman won't let you in unless you're a subscriber: don't they know anything about the Web?
Librarianship
Inside this clerical breast still beats the heart of a librarian! If only the Internet and the World Wide Web had been around in my librarian days. Check out some of these sites:
- Ex-Libris - An E-Zine for Librarians and Information Professionals
- Renegade Librarian: a kind of libarianship portal
- Library Juice: an e-zine for librarians
- Library Stuff
- Warrior Librarian
- The Laughing Librarian
- The Liberations of Librarianship: a page of links about breaking the stereotypes in film and pop culture. (But I never thought librarians were anything other than sexy, smart, resourceful etc.)
Where is there this kind of passion, commitment, humour and activism among British librarians?
Songbirds
Always been a sucker for women singers: here are some of my favourites, in more or less chronological order...
- Francoise Hardy. The one a million adolescent boys swooned over: she was singing just for me.
- Joni Mitchell. By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong.
- Judy Collins
- Kate Bush
- Enya
- Mary Black. Irish Magic.
- Eliza Carthy Folk. Fiddle. Fantastic!
- Tori Amos: What do you get if you cross Joni Mitchell with Kate Bush?